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> # I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

[Arnold Joseph Toynbee](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee)\#16

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## More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

1. > I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

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2. > It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at…

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3. > I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

[Permalink to quote \#14](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/14/ "Permalink to quote 14")

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